Pokemon was a huge part of my life during elementary school. I had Pokemon Yellow, Pokemon Stadium 1 and 2, a folder with pages full of Pokemon cards, Pokemon lunchbox, Pokemon pencils, my parents just should've gone ahead and renamed me "Pokemon". Eventually around 6th grade or so I felt I was too old to keep playing it because my cousin had stopped playing it around that time and was playing more grown-uppy games like Area 51 and True Crime LA.

My Dad let me have his old phone ( which isn't actually old, but it's the phone he had before his current one, so we call it "the old phone" ) and after browsing through the Google store thing I found a GBA emulator and decided to see if I could play FireRed ( because it featured the 1st and best generation of Pokemon, not all the stupid Pokemans you whipper-snappers are playing with today ) and sure enough it worked. It's funny that even after all these years I still find it quite addictive. I decided to do something a bit out of the ordinary and I'm running an entire Normal-type team: Raticate, Persian, Fearow, Snorlax, Clefable, and Kangaskhan. Bruno's going to have his way with me once I get to Elite Four. :(

One thing I never understood is why there is Dark and Ghost types, Bug and Grass, Rock and Ground, Water and Ice... it just seems to me like all those pairs don't have enough difference between them to warrant an entirely new type. Dark and Ghost, really? Bug and Grass, not too much of a difference there. Rock and Ground HAS to be a joke. And Water IS Ice, one is merely a solid form and the other isn't. But whatever.

Last thing I wanted to mention is X and Y look awesome, for reasons you can already guess from what I said earlier. They did a lot of things for us Generation 1 fanatics, like bringing back the awesomeness of Mewtwo and Charizard by giving them "Mega Evolutions". Just when you think gaming's best dragon ( yeah yeah fire/flying whatever shuddap, he's a dragon as far as im concerned ) can't get any more awesome, they make him MOAR AWESOME. As if he wasn't already powerful enough, he gets boosted Special Attack in this form and an ability called "Drought" which boosts his fire-type attacks even more. GG NO RE.

Pretty happy to see a series I grew up with come this far. I probably won't be buying a 3DS anytime soon so I'll miss out on having my own Mega Charizard, but maybe you guys will pick up a copy and tell me how #YOLOSWAGGIN he is.